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Intrusion Truth details work of suspected Chinese hackers who are under indictment in US

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Intrusion Truth, a mysterious group known for exposing suspected Chinese cyber-espionage operations, on Thursday published a new investigation that traced front companies allegedly used by two Chinese men whom a U.S. grand jury indicted last year. The findings shed light on a dynamic that U.S. law enforcement officials say is increasingly common: foreign intelligence services’ use of front companies to try to conceal their hacking operations. The details also come at a time when Biden administration officials are dealing with the fallout of another suspected Chinese hacking campaign in which attackers leveraged widely used Microsoft software. The Justice Department has alleged that the two suspects, Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi, met at university before embarking on a decade of malicious cyber activity, sometimes for personal financial gain and other times on behalf of the Ministry of State Security, China’s civilian intelligence agency. In some cases, the men allegedly probed the […]

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Twitter restricts account of Intrusion Truth, which doxxes suspected Chinese hackers

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Twitter on Tuesday moved to restrict the account of a mysterious group that has published details on suspected state-sponsored hackers from China. The group, Intrusion Truth, had spent recent days hinting that it would go public with new allegations against possible hackers, teasing followers with messages like “Watch this space” and “Who’s excited? We are.” The identity of the person or group behind Intrusion Truth has remained elusive since it started publishing information in 2017, including missives about how Chinese technology companies allegedly supported espionage on Beijing’s behalf. Intrusion Truth’s Twitter account suggested it would publish new information on Wednesday about “hackers based in Chengdu,” a city in southwestern China. Twitter, though, plastered a warning on the account, saying that the account was “temporarily restricted” because “there has been some unusual activity.” Users still could access the page at press time Tuesday, though they would need to click through to […]

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Americans still vulnerable to hack-and-leak tactics, DOJ official says

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As the 2020 election campaigning kicks into high gear, a senior Department of Justice official says he worries that Americans are still vulnerable to foreign hack-and-leak operations that are intended to disrupt democratic processes. “One of the things that I am concerned about is the hacking-and-dumping activity that occurred in 2016,” John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said Friday. He was referring to Russian military officers’ hacking of email servers used by Democratic political organizations, and the selective leaking of those emails to the public. Despite a lot of progress on election security since Russian interference in 2016, the personal email accounts used by political campaigns are still a weak link, Demers said at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. “It really is dependent on their cyber hygiene practices…and not clicking on that wrong email,” Demers said. “What the Russians did in 2016 in terms of the […]

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Latest ‘Intrusion Truth’ data dump peels back layers on Chinese front companies

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Intrusion Truth is back. The anonymous group known in the cybersecurity world for publishing detailed blog posts about suspected nation-state hackers released new information Thursday alleging that Chinese technology companies are recruiting attackers working on Beijing’s behalf. By identifying job postings seeking offensive cybersecurity skills, the group wrote, they found a number of companies in Hainan, a province in South China, all using the same language in their advertisements. Some of those companies have only a small web presence outside the job ads seeking offensive-minded computer specialists, suggesting to Intrusion Truth that employers actually are trying to recruit hackers for advanced persistent threat groups. “We know that these companies are a front for APT activity,” states the blog post published Thursday. This blog post is the first from Intrusion Truth since July 2019, when the group reported that a Chinese APT had offered to sell stolen data. Intrusion Truth emerged in […]

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Meet ‘Intrusion Truth,’ the Mysterious Group Doxing Chinese Intel Hackers

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Since April last year, a group calling itself ‘Intrusion Truth’ has trickled out the real names of hackers working for Chinese intelligence. Recently the group has ramped up its efforts against a Chinese operation targeting governments and businesses. Continue reading Meet ‘Intrusion Truth,’ the Mysterious Group Doxing Chinese Intel Hackers→